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Roschdy Zem (born 27 September 1965) is a French actor and filmmaker. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roschdy Zem, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The One I Loved
2025
as Yves Montand
She loved him more than anything else, he loved her more than anyone else. Simone Signoret and Yves Montand were the most famous couple of their time....

13 Days, 13 Nights: In the Hell of Kabul
2025
as Commandant Mohamed Bida
Kabul, August 15, 2021. US troops are preparing to withdraw from Afghanistan, while the Taliban are marching on the capital to seize power. Amid the c...

Winter in Sokcho
2025
as Yan Kerrand
A young Korean girl's life takes an unexpected turn when a French artist visits her country, disrupting her routine.

Bruuuuuce By Antoine
2024
as Self - Guest
Antoine de Caunes meets The Boss to promote the "Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band" documentary.

Elyas
2024
as Elyas
Elyas, a former Special Forces soldier who has become paranoid since a mission in Afghanistan, is recruited to ensure the safety of Amina and her daug...

Dear Paris
2024
as Jean Paul
What makes life worth living? In a set of interconnected stories, several Paris residents see their lives turned upside down when death knocks at thei...

On the Pulse
2024
as Vincent
Gabrielle has just joined a prestigious news program. With no formal training, she must prove herself and find her place among an experienced team of ...

The Edge of the Blade
2023
as Clément Lacaze
In 1887, at a time when duels are in vogue in Paris, Clément Lacaze and Marie-Rose Astié meet. He's a charismatic master of arms; she's a feminist, fa...

Wow!
2023
as Le père de Swan
Catherine and Oracio are real estate advisors, and are visiting two properties in quick succession: a large bourgeois house "which can have a swimming...

Le Principal
2023
as Sabri Lahlali, le principal et père de Naël
Sabri Lahlali, the assistant principal of a local high school, is ready to do anything to ensure that his son, who is about to take his high school di...

Our Ties
2022
as Ryad
Moussa has always been gentle, altruistic and present for his family. This is the opposite of his brother Ryad, a TV presenter of great notoriety who ...

Our Ties
2022
Director, Writer
Moussa has always been gentle, altruistic and present for his family. This is the opposite of his brother Ryad, a TV presenter of great notoriety who ...

Stay With Us
2022
as Roschdy Zem
Gad Elmaleh decides to leave New York and move back to Paris, to get baptized and become a Catholic. Despite his attempt to hide the truth from his Je...

The Innocent
2022
as Michel Ferrand
Sylvie, a nearly sixty-year-old woman, has fallen in love with Michel, a thug she marries in prison. The couple dream of starting again with a clean s...

Other People's Children
2022
as Ali Ben Attia
Rachel loves her life, her students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she grows close to his 4-year-old daugh...

Undercover
2022
as Hubert Antoine
October 2015. French customs seize seven tonnes of cannabis in the heart of the capital. The same day, Hubert Antoine, a former mole with a shady past...

Madame Claude
2021
as Jo Attia
Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the French poli...

The Girl with a Bracelet
2020
as Bruno
Lise (16 years old) is accused of murdering her best friend. As the trial starts, her parents stand right by her side. But once her secret life is rev...

Oh Mercy
2019
as Daoud
A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered on Christmas Eve. However, in a neighborhood rife wit...

Persona non grata
2019
as Moïse
José Nunes and Maxime Charasse are friends and minority partners in a struggling construction company. Faced with the need to protect their interests,...

Persona non grata
2019
Director
José Nunes and Maxime Charasse are friends and minority partners in a struggling construction company. Faced with the need to protect their interests,...

Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
2018
as Self

Nothing to Hide
2018
as Marco, husband of Charlotte
To spice up a dinner party, old friends agree to share every private message that pops up on their phones -- with disastrous results.

Leila
2018
as Hakim
Hakim and Latifa fled the Algerian civil war in the early 90s. They live since in the Jura, with their two daughters: Nedjma 14 years, and Leila, the ...

The Price of Success
2017
as Mourad
A comedian's relationship with his family crumbles when his career begins to take off.

The Brigade
2017
as Philippe, captain
Bénédicte Meursault, a female firefighter, has just been transferred to a small fire brigade in the South of France. She is welcomed by Philippe, 45, ...

Sahara
2017
as Saladin (voice)
A young cobra and his scorpion best friend go on a journey across the Sahara desert to save a new-found love.

Chocolat
2016
Director, Adaptation
Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Fo...

Alaska
2015
as Benoit
Nadine is a French young woman. Fausto is an Italian young man trying to make it in Paris as a restaurant waiter. They accidentally meet at a five-sta...

The Price of Fame
2015
as Osman
A criminal duo learns of Charlie Chaplin's death and decides to steal his coffin to hold for a ransom.

Bodybuilder
2014
as Vadim
Twenty year old Antoine has made enemies of a gang of young thugs, to whom he owes money. Fed up with his scams and petty crimes, his mother and older...

Bodybuilder
2014
Director, Scenario Writer
Twenty year old Antoine has made enemies of a gang of young thugs, to whom he owes money. Fed up with his scams and petty crimes, his mother and older...

The Chef's Wife
2014
as Sam Drissi
The wife of a successful chef feels unfulfilled in her rôle as dining-room hostess and consults career counselor, who is herself dissatisfied by her u...

Bird People
2014
as Simon
An overstressed American businessman and a French chambermaid make a connection at an airport hotel in Paris.

Giraffada
2014
as Yohav Alon
Yacine is the veterinarian of the only zoo remaining in the Palestinian West Bank. He lives alone with his 10-year old son, Ziad. The kid has a specia...

Just Like a Woman
2013
as Mourad
Two women get on the highway heading to Santa Fe. Marilyn dreams of winning a contest held by a famous belly dancing company, while her friend, Mona, ...

Collision
2013
as Saleh
Deceit and betrayal rise to the surface after newlyweds survive a deadly car accident in the Moroccan desert.

Armed Hands
2012
as Lucas Skali
Lucas and his team are after a gang of Serbian criminals using NATO-issued weapons. As the investigation leads him to Paris, Lucas attempts to reconne...

The Cold Light of Day
2012
as Zahir
After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader is confronted by the people responsible: intelligence age...

Paris by Night
2012
as Simon Weiss
Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris’s demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs,...

Omar Killed Me
2011
Director
In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal is found murdered in the basement of her home with the message "Omar M'a Tuer" (Omar has kill...

Point Blank
2010
as Hugo Sartet
Samuel Pierret is a nurse who saves the wrong guy – a thief whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife hostage to force him to spring their boss from ...

Outside the Law
2010
as Messaoud
After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army...

Four Lovers
2010
as Franck
Mutual attraction leads two married couples to swap bedtime partners.

Conte de la frustration
2010
as Nassim

Turk's Head
2010
as Atom
A 14 year old boy, an ER doctor, a cop looking for revenge, a mother fighting for her children and a man distraught by the death of his wife see their...

Legal Aid
2009
as Antoine Lahoud
At the age of forty, Antoine Lahoud is still defending petty criminals who are entitled only to legal aid. He still has a quixotic notion of his missi...

London River
2009
as Le Boucher
After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 terror attacks on the city, two strangers come to discover their ...

The Very Very Big Company
2008
as Zak
Four friends decide to confront a multinational agrochemical company that is polluting their region. They have 30 days to gather evidence.

Go Fast
2008
as Marek / Slimane
Marek, a crime squad officer, sets out to avenge the death of his partner and best friend, who was killed by drug traffickers. He asks for a posting t...

The Girl from Monaco
2008
as Christophe Abadi
A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a famous criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil...

Zidane, un destin d'exception
2007
as Narator

Game of Four
2007
as Thomas
When a man & woman discover their spouses are having an affair with each other, they secretly plot to break them up and win them back

Bad Faith
2006
as Ismaël
In Paris, Clara, psycho motor therapist, and Ismaël, music teacher, have been lovers for four years. Happy, the couple are expecting their first child...

Bad Faith
2006
Writer, Director
In Paris, Clara, psycho motor therapist, and Ismaël, music teacher, have been lovers for four years. Happy, the couple are expecting their first child...

Days of Glory
2006
as Messaoud Souni
1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlist in the French Army, alon...

La Californie
2006
as Mirko
Mirko and Stefan, Serbian refugees, move to the French Riviera. There they meet Maguy who lives in a luxurious mansion up the hill above Cannes with a...

The Young Lieutenant
2005
as Solo
A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective...

Camping à la ferme
2005
as Amar
Six jeunes en difficulté de la banlieue parisienne débarquent au fin fond de la campagne française, escortés par leur éducateur. Ils doivent montrer l...

Live and Become
2005
as Yoram Harrari
In 1980, the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a J...

36th Precinct
2004
as Hugo Silien
In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is direct...

Ordo
2004
as Ordo Tupikos
Ordo Tupikos, a french sailor with greek origins, discover that his first wife, Estelle, with whom he had remained married a few months only 16 years ...

Thank You, Doctor Rey
2004
as Taxifahrer
A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaison, but ends up witnessing what turns out to be his...

Tenja
2004
as Nordine
A young man has to return in Morocco to bury his father.

Sansa
2004
as Sansa
Artist/writer/director/producer Siegfried follows a street hustler/artist Sansa who makes his way from Paris to Russia using his street smarts. Sansa ...

The Car Keys
2003
as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...

Only Girls
2003
as Malek
After a shoplifter finds herself unexpectedly released on parole, she pays a call on the judge at her flat. The judge, Carole Rewinsky, does not tell ...

Chouchou
2003
as Frère Jean
Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew. Hired as an assistant by a psychotherap...

Monsieur N.
2003
as Marshal Bertrand
This film covers the last years of the Emperor's life, imprisoned by the British on St Helena, a remote island off the west coast of Africa. Napoleon ...

Blanche
2002
as Bonange
In 17th century France, cardinal Mazarin's death squad kills young Blanche's parents. She grows up to become a thief and steels a substance called Pow...
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002
as Self
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, dir...

The Race
2002
as Sami
Sami, Tacchini, Yaya and Kader are four small-time crooks from the suburbs of Paris. After a failed robbery, their boss, Carlito, sends them to Canada...

Change My Life
2001
as Sami
Slightly over-the-hill actress Nina has a fainting spell in a Paris park and Sami, an Algerian man, out for a run comes to her aid. She seeks him out ...

Betty Fisher and Other Stories
2001
as Dr. Jérôme Castang
When bestselling novelist Betty Fisher loses her young son in a tragic accident, her unstable mother resorts to unusual actions to alleviate Betty's g...

L'origine du monde
2001
as Sami
A young policeman of Moroccan origin investigates the murder of an informer. His investigations soon lead him to question his own past.

Little Senegal
2001
as Karim
Fascinated by the history of his people, Alloune, an old guide at the African museum "La Maison des Esclaves" in Gorée, sets off on a pilgrimage to fi...

Don't Make Trouble!
2001
as Samir "Luc Leblanc" (segment "Le Vigneron Français")
Twelve short stories about racism in every day life.

My Wife Is an Actress
2001
as Le mec de la vedette
A "normal" guy who is married to a hot actress gets worried that she is involved with her costar. This worry turns into jealousy and causes problems i...

Save Me
2000
Agatha is a beautiful young woman from Romania who had a brief but passionate love affair with a French surgeon when he visited her country as part of...

Stand-by
2000
as Marco
A woman remains in an airport after her husband announces he wants a divorce, just before they are to board a plane for Argentina. Unwilling to turn t...

Enchanted Interlude
2000
as Paul
Summer 1969 on the Mediterranean coast. Paul and Vincent are childhood buddies. On a beach one day, they meet Alice and her friend Eve. After a series...

My Little Business
1999
as Sami
A wood worker is trying hard to make his company survive every day... But a fire in his workshop leaves him in a lot of trouble when he realizes his i...

The City
1999
as Roschdy
Ali, an aspiring actor, works in a government-aided butchery and takes part in a cheap play. Defying his father's wishes, he moves to Paris to fulfill...

Living in Paradise
1999
as Lakhdar
Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, Living in Paradise is a thought-provoking examination of the lives of North African immigrants try...

Louise (Take 2)
1999
as Rémi
The central role of Louise is portrayed by Elodie Bouchez, who won a 1998 Cannes "Best Actress" award for The Dreamlife of Angels. When Louise has an ...
Les Petits Souliers
1999
as Zoubir Galaoui

Alice and Martin
1998
as Saïd
Martin, the illegitimate son of an industrialist and a hairdresser, was sent to live with his wealthy father in the countryside as a young boy. Alice ...

For Sale
1998
as The banker
A Private detective is hired to trace a woman who ran away and disappeared on her wedding day. The movie follows him and recounts the story of her lif...

Le monde à l'envers
1998
as Nasser
Rolando Colla made his directorial debut with this Swiss-French-Italian period drama about a Breton woman who disguises herself as a man to join a shi...

Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train
1998
as Thierry
A group of mourners travels by train to bury a recently deceased artist in Limoges. As they journey, secrets and desires unfold, with relationships sh...

Long Live the Republic
1997
as Ahmed
A group of young unemployed people from Le Mans (France) decide to create a new political party.

The Other Shore
1997
as Tarek Timzert
This film deals with the aftermath of the Algerian war of liberation. Georges Montero, an Algerian-born Frenchman, manages an olive canning factory in...

The Gods Must Be Daring
1997
as Oscar
A priceless statuette "Dancing God" is transfered from Africa to France. Scoundrels of all stripes are dreaming of steeling it. The most clever of the...

Fred
1997
as Nouchi
Fred (Vincent Lindon) is a former crane driver who was a victim of the closure of his factory. He takes care of the little boy of his girlfriend (Clot...

My Family's Honour
1997
as Hamid
In the nightclub where she works, Carole is dreaming. She has always dreamed of leaving her rainy Roubaix, her heavy guys and her lousy prospects. She...

The Best Job in the World
1996
as Ahmed Raouch
To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a po...

Clubbed to Death
1996
as Emir
A young woman visiting Paris, misses the last bus home, finds herself stranded on the outskirts of Paris. Entering a local club, she meets a troubled ...

The Phantom Heart
1996
as Moand
Philippe is a middle-aged painter, he lives with Annie : they have two kids. Just after they split up, Philippe meets Justine. He starts thinking abou...

Mémoires d'un jeune con
1996
as Bachir
Frédéric is arrested for illicit use of narcotic drugs. In jail, he meets he get up close with various sorts of people among which he looks for a role...

Don't Forget You're Going to Die
1996
as Omar
Benoit has his life all planned out before him. Unfortunately, he had totally forgotten to include his military service. Inevitably called into duty, ...

To Have (Or Not)
1995
as Joseph
Alice, fired from her job on an assembly line, leaves her boyfriend and provincial home for an uncertain new life in Lyon. There she encounters Bruno,...

My Favorite Season
1993
as Mehdi
Elderly woman Berthe leaves her house to live with her daughter Emilie. Emilie and her brother Antoine had a falling out three years ago and have not ...

I Don't Kiss
1991
as Said
A good-looking but naive lad leaves his mountain village to try and make his way in Paris. He thinks maybe he will try acting but things don't go too ...
Déchaînées
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Le Raïs
N/A
as Le Raïs
Elisa – Io la volevo uccidere
N/A
as Alaoui
Zem will play a compassionate criminologist named Alaoui, whose life intersects with a young woman named Elisa, played by Ronchi. Elisa comes from a m...
Billie Melody
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